Yesterday morning, before the ink was dry on Terri Schiavo’s autopsy report, John Cole ranted and raved about the “silence” of the pro-tubists in response to yesterday’s autopsy report, which apparently was supposed to prove Michael Schiavo is a great guy and that there is absolutely no possibility he misstated his estranged wife’s supposed intent. Dean Esmay rightly called him on it, and later in comments, so did I:

I said last but I lied. Between my entry and the rest of the ones cited here, can you at least admit you were wrong to prattle about the “silence” of those of us Schiavo supporters who had the unmitigated gall to actually wait an hour or two before weighing in in the nonstory du jour?

To which John wisely responded:

Gee, you got me there. I guess I was a little too quick on the draw, wasn’t I? My bad. Next time I feel like publishing something like that, I’ll save it as a draft, wait a day or two to see if my position is justified, and if it is, I’ll post it then.

No, wait, I almost forgot; he didn’t say that. That’s probably what he should have said, mind you, but it’s not what he did say, which was this:

Umm, right now I am channeling Carly Simon for some reason. I know who I had in mind when I wrote the post. I was thinking of Michelle Malkin and LaShawn Barber and a few others… Not you.

Apparently, John was quite fond of his and Carly’s strawman, so much so he also used it on Dean Esmay, who had also called him on his silly “silence” post and who also had never claimed the original post was about him. So fond of this brilliant rejoinder was he, that he didn’t even bother to first check to see if either of the named individuals had weighed in yet, as LaShawn had. The other, Michelle Malkin, appears to be guilty as charged, having committed the cardinal sin of giving herself one whole day to actually read the damned report before weighing in on it.

So far, that makes John 0 for 2, a boner which has not yet been addressed in his original post, despite the fact that it has been updated to throw snot at Dean – again, long after one of the two referenced bloggers had broken her non-silence, and before personally lashing out (h/t: Patterico) at the other over her non-silence since. Apparently, gross errors are something for which everyone except John (or perhaps everyone except Dean Esmay, Carly Simon and me) is supposed to apologize.